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AmerAsia has been the place to go for dim sum delights in Albuquerque since the 1970s.

More than 21 dim sum items are offered, all served on small white plates. Everything is brought to your table on a silver cart, and, at the end, the number of plates you've cleared off determines the price you pay - they're only $3 each.

Owner Hyang Mi makes everything fresh daily.

She started working at the original AmerAsia on Cornell Drive when she first moved to the United States at age 19.

Eventually, Mi bought the place, and this past summer, opened up a more chic version in Downtown. There are plum-colored floors, pale green walls and authentic Korean antiques from Mi's own home.

Dumplings filled with chicken and chestnuts sit like flower bulbs on plates. Spicy beef and rice fill tea-cup-size bowls. Barbecue pork Bao Zi sit like round little pillows on the table. Flaky pastry shells are pressed together, filled with a spicy-sweet curry or juicy beef and garlic.

Snowballs are sweet rice cakes stuffed with a warm gooey filling, rolled in coconut and garnished with lemon peel. The combination manages to give the effect of warm apple pie.

Crispies are crispy skins covered in powdered sugar. A bite into the crispy cookies inevitably yields a dusting of powdered sugar that poofs into the air like magic dust from your mouth.

Dim sum translates into "little pieces of your heart." These foods are deliciously flavored and sensuously textured, but the low price tags are what really win my love.

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